Skirt-ironing machine.



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SKIRT IHONING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 5. 1915.

1,178,148. I Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

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SKIRT-RGNEN@ MACHENWE,

i Specification of Letters Patent.

.application tiled March 5,1915. Serial to. 12,4,18.

To all whom it may concerylf;

Be it known that l, Jon S. Gawa'r'r, a

-citizen ofthe United lStates, residing at Troy, county of Rensselaer, and State of Newl York, have 7invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skirt-ironing Mashoe broken away from the rest of the machine. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section taken on line 3-3 through the roll-supporting shaft showin the roll and lroning-shoe. Fig. 4c is a view in front elevation of the roll and ironingshoe. Fig. 5 is a vertical cross-section of the same taken on the broken line 5-5 in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a `detail in elevation illustrating the manner of operating the roll-supporting shaft to cause a pressing movement between the roll and the shoe. f

The principal object of the invention is to adapt an ironing-machine for ironing skirts, nightdresses and similar garments, which have greater fullness at one end than at the other, that is, the bodies of which are tapered.

Referring to the drawings wherein the invention is shown lin preferred form, 1 is the frame of the machine upon which is rotatively mounted a shaft, 2, having a gear, 3, fixed thereon meshing with a'pinion, 4, in

fixed relation to a pulley, .5, adapted to rel y-ffceive a driving belt, not shown.

A roll-supporting shaft, 6, is -rotatively mounted substantially parallel with, and

obliquely below, the shaft, 2, an intermediate i portionof said' shaft, 6, passing through'a bearing-box, 8, slidably` mounted in a slotted .bearing, 9, in the frame of the machine, said slotted bearing being substantially'perpen- '."jdicular to the shaft, 22.

frusto-'conical roll or drum, 10, isfixed if. i' upon the projecting end of the shaft, 6, out- '2, to cause the gear, 12, and pinion, 13, to

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side the frame of the machine, and the other end of the shaft, 6, has a rocking-bearing@ upon the frame of the machine at 11, which permits the shaft to be rocked toward and from the shaft, 2, by movements of the bearing-box, 8, along the slot, 9.

A gear-wheel, 12, fixed upon the shaft,.6,

is adapted to be-moved by the rocking movement 0f said shaft into and out of engagement with a pinion, 13,l on the shaft, 2.

The bearing-box 3, is adapted to be moved along the slideway, 9, toward the shaft, 2 by means of a lever, 14, pivoted at 15, upon the frame of the machine, and having one end engageable with a lug or offset, 16, on said bearing-box, 8, the other end of said lever being connected by a link or rod, 17, with a treadle, 18. By depressing the treadle, 13, the shaft, 6, can be rocked toward the shaft intermesh, and when the treadle is released,

the weight of the shaft, 6, and roll, 10, will cause a return rocking movement of theshaft, 6, to separate the gear, 12, from the pinion, 13.

The frusto-conical drum or roll, I0, tapers outwardly and may be padded in the usual manner.

An ironing-shoe, 7, is supported from the frame, 1, by means of brackets, 19, substan-v tially parallel with, and obliquely above,

f the roll, 10. This shoe is preferably made hollow whereby it is adapted to be. heated by steam through the medium ofsteampipes, 20, and is formed with -a concaved surface, 21, adjacent to, andconforming to, the lfrusto-conical surface of the roll 10. TheV shoe, 7, is also preferably outwardly tapered to substantially the same degree as v the roll or drum. The position of the shoe is suchthat when the treadle, 18, is released,-

suiicient space will be left between the surface of the roll and the ooncaved surface,

21, of the shoe, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5,

to freely permit the insertion and removal y of the garment t0 be irOned.

"The garment to bev ironed is placed in the machine by drawing the .larger end 'of' the garment inwardly over the smaller end of the roll, 10, and then the treadle, 18, is depressed throwing the gear, 12, into mesh with the pinion, 13, to drive the roll, 10, which roll carries the garment past the concavedironing surface of the iron, 7, under pressure which 'is regulated by thetread1e,' 18. The surface speed of the larger end of nn Au the roll, 10, being considerably greater than that of its smaller end, the extra fullness in the larger end of the garment will be substantially taken up in' passing the garment around the roll, and the garment will, during the ironing operation, remain symthe garment which travel at the greater' speed shall be exposed to the heated concaved surface of. theshoe for substantially as long a period as the Aarts of the garment on the smaller end of the roll.

Any known means may be employed for.

.out its length.

rotating the frusto-conical roll and for causing -a relative .pressing movement between said roll and the ironing-shoe.

What I claim asnew and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- In an ironing-machine, and in combination, a frusto-conical roll, and an ironingv shoe extending longitudinally therewith, and having a concaved surface `coperative with one side of said roll, said shoe being longitudinally tapered to correspond with the taper of the roll, and having a roll-engaging surface of the same angular extent through- In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 1st day of March, 1915.

- JOB S. GAWET'I. e Witnesses Rosn A. Leone, GERTRUDE M. Prrz. 

